Enabling Gzip Compression

<!--?<?php
ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
?>

Just place this piece of code at the top in your PHP page and you should see a significant performance improvement. Gzip Compression is by far, the most popular and efficient method when it comes to compressing data sent by web servers to browsers. This method claims a reduction in response size by about 70% (source).

If you are using WordPress as your back-end, just add this piece of code in your theme’s “functions.php”: